Whenever we talk about domestic violence, we always focus on women as victims. Though violence against women has became a global concern. Studies have shown that globally domestic violence accounts for nearly one quarter of all recorded crimes.

The fact that domestic violence prevails across all strata of the Nigerian society is no longer debatable, but domestic violence against men is now on increase. Family is the basic unit of all societies and the bedrock of every society is family and a head of a family is now victim of domestic violence.

Spousal abuse against men is on increase despite the fact that majority of the victims are silently cover themselves up so as to avoid stigmatization.

Domestic violence research in Nigeria has not received appropriate attention. Little has been done by researchers, and the available research literatures on domestic violence are inadequate and dominated by foreign authors and researchers. No doubt, many women are violently treated by their intimate partners while suffer in silence. But there is need for paradigm shift in research in order to expose more higher on this phenomenon that has kept silent and suffering in silence by men than women.